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Strappado (Noun)

Meaning

A form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope.

Classification

Nouns denoting acts or actions.

Examples

  • The accused was subjected to the strappado, a gruesome form of torture employed by the inquisitors during the trials of suspected heretics.
  • At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, the strappado was commonly used as a means of extracting confessions from those deemed enemies of the state.
  • Torture methods like the strappado allowed interrogators to elicit information from even the most hardened prisoners.
  • Many condemned prisoners fell victim to the agonizing pain of the strappado during the early Renaissance period in Europe.
  • Historians have documented numerous accounts of inquisitors employing the strappado in an effort to coerce false confessions from those under investigation.

Synonyms

  • Strapado

Hypernyms

  • Torturing
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